Before the traffic finds Route 17, mist sits low over the Wallkill flats outside Middletown and the first mowers of the day go out into it. Garcia's Turf Landscaping LLC cuts, trims and edges lawns across the city and the farm country wrapped around it, on river-valley soil that grows turf thick if you keep after it. Summer is humid and generous here, the grass answers every rain, and the answer is a fresh line straight down the middle of the yard. Autumn turns the work to leaves, and there is an ordinary, solid satisfaction in a curb strip swept bare when the last bag is loaded. Middletown, Wallkill, Scotchtown and Circleville.